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The main purpose of this research was to create a portable equipment capable of measuring colour and turbidity during production of port wine. Actually, human, chemical and colour analysis are performed in key production stages for quality control. Several wine transformation processes are done without any kind of control. By using a fibre optic illuminator with a tungsten/halogen light source and a small spectrometer with fibre optic input, it was possible to perform angular measurements in wine samples. We have adapted these optical devices with a specially designed mechanical equipment which allows the passage of the wine during production. The spectral measurements were acquired in four different angular positions in a bypass of the mechanical support. This way we could determine colour coordinates and spectral transmittance and turbidity for three stages of a Ruby production. The entire equipment assembly had been previously calibrated in terms of colour and turbidity determination. The obtained results are in agreement with wine transformations between measurements, showing a small variation in colour and a high diminishing in spectral turbidity when filtration was performed. Transmittance has also increased after filtration turning the wine more limpid as it should be for human appreciation.

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We report the first experimental observation of optical spatial shock-wave pairs. The shock waves consist of two coupled kink and antikink beams that remain locked to each other throughout propagation in a nonlinear diffusion-driven photorefractive crystal. These coupled shock-wave pairs move undistorted at angles that fall outside their original angular sector of propagation.

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We have investigated the possibility to erase arc-induced long period gratings through uniform exposure to UV-laser radiation and their potential recover by thermal annealing. The temperature stability of UV/arc-induced gratings is also presented. © 2000 Optical Society of America.

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A chirped fibre Bragg grating was written in an Erbium doped fibre. It was found that the slope of the reflected spectral power could be tuned by changing the pump power. The gratings fabricated were demonstrated to be useful in the development of a technique for optical interrogation of FBGs sensing heads with tunable sensitivity. © 2003 OSA/BGPP.

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We report on optimality conditions for control problems with mixed state control constraints and pure state constraints. Our main goal is to unify previously developed work and to illustrate the different approaches used. We describe necessary conditions that include an Euler-Lagrange inclusion for a weak minimizer as well as necessary conditions in the form of a maximum principle for a strong minimizer. The sufficiency of the same conditions for a certain class of these problems is also analysed. Copyright (C) 2003 IFAC.

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Mobile agents are the latest software technology to program flexible and efficient distributed applications. Most current systems implement semantics that are hard if not impossible to prove correct. In this paper we present MOB, a scripting language for Internet agents encoded on top of a process calculus and with provably sound semantics.